Books with title The Haunted Heist

Alex Mitchell doesn’t have the slightest interest in the auction his mother drags him to after a disastrous day at junior high. Antiques are her interest, not his—yet somehow, when they head home, he’s the one clutching a Civil War bugle. When Alex blows the horn, he sets in motion a train of events that will destroy his home town of Oak Bluff, Arkansas...unless he can figure out the secret of the haunted horn in time, and, with the help of his new friend Annie Parker, evade the gang of bullies out to get him, her, and the haunted horn.

Weird things are happening on Harry’s bus. Windows are opening and closing without anyone’s help. The bus is making strange screaming sounds. And there’s a scary pile of bones under Diane’s seat. Is the school bus haunted? Charlie and Max have to know. How can they find out? They will have to go into the old garage at night! What will they do if ghosts are there? One thing is sure. Before the night is over, Charlie and Max will be frightened out of their wits—and so will the “ghosts.” Just wait and see. Meet all the kids on the school bus and share their zany adventures in this wonderful!

Redlaw is a teacher of chemistry who often broods over wrongs done him and grief from his past.He is haunted by a spirit, who is not so much a ghost as Redlaw's phantom twin and is "an awful likeness of himself...with his features, and his bright eyes, and his grizzled hair, and dressed in the gloomy shadow of his dress..." This spectre appears and proposes to Redlaw that he can allow him to "forget the sorrow, wrong, and trouble you have known...to cancel their remembrance..." Redlaw is hesitant at first, but finally agrees.As a consequence of the ghost's intervention, Redlaw is without memories of the painful incidents from his past. He experiences a universal anger that he cannot explain. His bitterness spreads to the Swidgers, the Tetterbys and his student. All become as wrathful as Redlaw himself. The only one who is able to avoid the bitterness is Milly.With this realization, the novel concludes with everyone back to normal and Redlaw, like Ebenezer Scrooge, a changed, more loving man. Now a whole person, Redlaw learns to be humble at Christmas.

The Claybourne Academy of Excellence is a boarding school that is known for churning out geniuses. Its alumni write theorems and poems for presidential inaugurations. They discover cures and galaxies. Though the nature of their expertise spans every element of human existence, the one thing the alumni have in common is that they are the best. Nobody questions the school's methods except Lydia Boswell. She's looking for answers, but her soul is at stake.

After a summer spent reclaiming her sanity and trying to forget the boy she fell in love with—the boy who must not exist, cannot exist, because she knows that he is dead—Abbey returns to Sleepy Hollow, ready to leave the ghosts of her past behind. But Abbey can never get over Caspian, and Caspian has no choice but to return to her side, for Caspian is a Shade, and Abbey is his destiny. They are tied not only to each other, but also to the town of Sleepy Hollow, and to the famous legend that binds their fates—a legend whose truths they are only beginning to guess....